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Show BAMBERGER TALKS "! : 01 PROHIBIT!' Says Bill Will Be Passed and That His Signature Will Be Attached. IS GIVEN APPLAUSE Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Makes an Address Ad-dress to Social Workers. "A prohibition law as strong as any ever enacted will go into effect in this & t;i to on A ngust 1, l'.ti7, and Simon lam border 's signal n re will bo on it." With thin prediction tlie Democratic nominee for governor of Utah concluded con-cluded yesterday afternoon a forty-minute forty-minute address before an audience of the social workers of Salt Lake City. The speech was made in the commission commis-sion chamber at the city and county building. The preceding part of Mr. Bamberger Bamber-ger 's address was devoted to a discussion dis-cussion of the prohibition question. Drawing upon his experience- as a business busi-ness man, lie voiced the opinion that prohibition in Utah is inevit abie, that it is the duty of the average non-drinking non-drinking citizen to his fellows who are victims of the liquor appetite, and that it is a step forward in the interest of Bound business progress. Fie fore making his tinal declaration "Mr. Bamberger remarked that it had been paid of him that when he made campaign speeches in ' ' dry ' ' territory be was "dry" in his attitude and that I when talking in "wet" towns he talked I in favor of the contention of the ' "wets." 1 "This is" the first, wet town, with the exception of Myton, in which I have spoken," said the Democratic candi-: candi-: date. You now are going to hear how I I talk in wet territory." With this ; preface he made the declaration quoted above. i Discusses the Traffic. Explaining that the liquor traffic had been somewhat allied with his business , interests, Mr. Bamberger said that his company was .accepting $50(10 less rental ren-tal for concessions at the Lagoon resort re-sort this year than last year, when the mile of beer was permitted, and $6000 . less than the year before, when a saloon was operated" at the resort. "But that is but an evidence of the waste of the liquor traffic," explained the speaker. "I am not reputed to be short on business judgment. With prohibition pro-hibition once effective our lost lease money will be found coming back from vario'ns avenues. The sale of liquor was started at the Lagoon resort seventeen seven-teen years ago when liquor was being sold everywhere. This year it has been nominally dry, .but actually very wet. Nothing prevented the patrons from carrying liquor from Salt Lake and Og-den. Og-den. ' ' The speaker explained that he was citing tho instance of the resort eon-trolled eon-trolled by the business interest with which he is identified because it had afforded him opportunity for first-hand study of the prohibition question. He asserted that he is convinced that prohibition pro-hibition would be business economy if state-wide and effective, and that it must be state-wide to be effective. Takes Up Moral Side. With the economic phase of the question ques-tion disposed of, Mr. Bamberger took up the moral side of the issue. He said : T thank God that T have never had to struggl against an appetite for liquor. r urtkermoro, my sincere sin-cere sy in pa i ny is extended to the man who has such a struggle in his daily life and more to those of his family. But let me assure you, if a n y of you have relatives or friends who are addicted to liquor drhking that the time is imminent whu they are to be protected p. gainst themselves. Xothing can stop prohibition in this state. Even the opposing political parties, the I'inocrats ami the Republicans, are agreed upon that. W hen a young man I had for a friend a man who was of a prominent, promi-nent, cultured family. Fie became ;i hopeless drunkard. lie once promised me that T would never a train see hi in intoxicated. T told him i hat he had often promised , me t he same t h nig. I left the town where we both lived. A week later 1 was Mtuimoned by telegraph tn return home for his funeral. He had taken poison. In no other way r 'on Id he make good his pledge ii e er to let me again see him intoxicated. in-toxicated. Those among us who are addicted addict-ed tn the use of liquor are often citizens who afford us protection in their activities as members of the community. We have no right t o wit bhold from them the protec-tion protec-tion that we are able to give and that we, too, well k now that thev uecd. Duty Is Pointed Out. The duty of the citizen who has no appetite for liquor toward the nan v. ho is victimized by such an api"-tte is too plain to need explanation. expla-nation. Prohibition is not only needful, but it is fortu nate for Utah, in oral I v, financially and so-ci;i so-ci;i H y. that it is inevitable. I recently addressed an audience in a r.:i town of this state. After it was over my chauffeur informed ire that there we-e a dozen mere j b-ivs nu'side of the building who wee drunk. They had. been furnished fur-nished with liouor from a near-by v: nvn. They were living under a reputedly dry administration of their town government. Hut the iacr lii:tf a neighboring town was a pia.-e where the sale of liquor was ;: ! bi e ! under the law removed :Yo;u t'-eru somewhat of the p-ntec-;:nn t:o: t'ollv that was designed ic b theirs by the elimination of 'hi- '. : wo;- t ra '' " i-' from their own . . '. !:,;;; :y. The oe !y remedy for Imjs in that ei:;s is to remove the nn ibi!:: v of obtaiuini; liquor to ro:;.1 the reaches of the state. Further Explanation. V v. liambe- ger ve:,: m tn ex; ';: in ihar hr rc't that the arMinde of the inn jori t v nf MK'i-iv h'ii'ied his attitude atti-tude un the liqanr'.pv:ion. He rn;,,t-edpitt rn;,,t-edpitt that -o fur as p'a-ine;s ir.an- , riirement wns concerned he avoided the hiring of men who smoked cigarettes, lie said that to him a man of such habit did not appeal as being best qualified qual-ified for the. sort of service that he expected ex-pected from entplHvees. ' Of course, ' " he remarked, ' ' I may be wrong on this point, out it is one of the theories To wh.i-h I adhere. Rut on the matter of prohihitirm mv bidg-in bidg-in 'nt i sui pnrted aud wi be indicated indi-cated bv a ma :orit v of the voter of thM f-late. The adilrrss of the Democratic nominee nomi-nee was interrupted several times bv the nnphmse of his aud ie ace. He was introduced bv Mnvnr W. Mont Verrv. who left nn executive session of the -irv cnuKiiis-bvi tn present the speaker to the t liT nf the repres,-: tn t'.-ce -O'-ial workers nf the cj; v. The m-d-ing was the regular inouthlv gathe-ing .if -orial wn'-hcrs nt" lhe-(i:y. under ti.v aur-pices of the O:-;, razed Chanties. |